Hierarchy Quotes

Hierarchy. Ah, those cursed ladders. There's always someone above you, and someone below you. An endless game of climbing and stepping, where the top is often just an illusion, and the bottom is unbearably crowded. It's not just an organizational structure; it's human nature manifesting everywhere, from boardrooms to neighborhood cafes. The following quotes lay bare the mechanics of power and human classification.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero: In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master....
Quote by Jane Austen: The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen....
Quote by William Butler Yeats: The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain,The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,Some back a ...
Quote by William Shakespeare: We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed....
Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte: The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways....
Quote by Lao Tzu: In the world there are four greats, and the king is one of them....
Quote by Thomas Paine: But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be a...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men ...
Quote by Len Wein: It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to foll...
Quote by William Shakespeare: Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones....
Quote by Peter Drucker: It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planne...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks ...
Quote by Peter Drucker: Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only s...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: The greater number of men are merely corporals....
Quote by Immanuel Kant: Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man....
Quote by Colin Powell: Everybody makes bad decisions. I am sure I have made my share of them over 40 years of service. Or I...
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen....
Quote by George Orwell: For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normal...
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero: The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that ...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Some will always be above others....
Quote by Mark Twain: Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of ev...
Quote by Mark Twain: Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on....
Quote by Peter Drucker: Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance...
Quote by George Orwell: A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is t...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spur...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise....
Quote by Mark Twain: We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democrat...
Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien: Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you...
Quote by Charles Dickens: May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact o...
Quote by Charles Dickens: The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and t...
Quote by Tupac Shakur: Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my jo...
Quote by William Shakespeare: We cannot all be masters....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub....
Quote by Thomas Sowell: Everyone may be called
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority....
Quote by Mark Twain: A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never pro...
Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky: All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a lif...
Quote by George Orwell: The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields powe...
Quote by William Shakespeare: An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind....
Quote by Karl Marx: The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge....
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of ...
Quote by Karl Marx: The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned....
Quote by William Shakespeare: So doth the greater glory dim the less:A substitute shines brightly as a kingUntil a king be by....
Quote by William Shakespeare: The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture,...
Quote by Confucius: We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women....